Published date: 26 November 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 16 April 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Financial and insurance services - 66000000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£188,500

Procurement reference

BIP450146178

Published date

26 November 2019

Closing date

16 April 2019

Contract start date

23 April 2019

Contract end date

9 September 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not specified

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

FSCS is seeking to award Service Contracts to two (2) individual Service Providers for the provision of secure Cheque
Printing and Pay-out Services comprising the following:
1. Implementation Services:
-Put in place standby and payment services capable of anytime short notice invocation.
-Supplier project management of design, including End to End testing, through to implementation of standby service.
2. Standby Services:
-Cheque base-stock and envelope stock production and storage capability, or outsource/sub-contract facilities
for same
-Security around plant, stock and process consistent with sensitive materials and mail handling, and accredited
cheque production
3. Payment Services:
-Printing, enclosing and dispatching cheques to the required standards within the required timeframes
-Receiving data for up to two (2) million records on Day 1, and ensuring all records are dispatched by last post
before the end of Day 4 (exceptions apply to non-Business days).
-Receipt/transmission of data in FSCS prescribed pipe delimited .txt via a Secure File Transfer (SFTP), a secure method over the Internet (e.g. SFTP, Portal or Website secured by TLS 1.2 or higher) , Error handling and Management Information Reporting over invocation period via same protocol.
-Returned mail handling and reporting facility
Each Contract for Cheque Printing and Pay-out Services will be the same and it is intention that FSCS will award the
Primary Service Provider contract to the Tenderer having submitted the most economically advantageous tender then Secondary Service Provider contract to Tenderer of the second most economically advantageous tender.
All Service Providers shall be required to provide Implementation services to set up services, and Standby Services following 'set up' for the term of the contract. Pay-out services will be on a tiered approach as described below.
The work to be allocated to the Service-Providers is on a tiered basis so that Primary Provider is preferred followed by Secondary Provider where Primary Provider is unable to meet all or part of the requirement.

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Award information

Awarded date

16 April 2019

Contract start date

23 April 2019

Contract end date

9 September 2022

Total value of contract

£188,500

This contract was awarded to 2 suppliers.

Integrity Print Ltd

Address

First Avenue,
Westfield Trading Estate
Midsomer Norton
Bath
BA3 4BS

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Adare SEC Ltd

Address

1 Meridian South,
Meridian Business Park
Leicester
LE19 1WY

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement

Address

Beaufort House
15 St. Botolph Street
London
EC3A 7QU
UK

Telephone

02073758175

Email

procurement@fscs.org.uk